03-14-2022, 12:32 AM
TIL that the original Bitcoin logo was designed by Satoshi himself and was incredibl
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>Okay, the second half of the title is slight clickbait (but true)</strong>. Let me explain:</p> <p>There have been three different Bitcoin symbols in use since its inception. The original one was designed by Satoshi and looked <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Bitcoin_old.png">like this</a> - a picture made out of a few pixels, depicting a gold coin with "BC" on it, looking really, really awful. I think it's pretty interesting that Satoshi himself designed the logo as a gold coin, as I've seen many people complain over the years if the media illustrate stories about crypto with physical coins with crypto logos on them, because that's a wrong depiction. I always thought that was weird criticism - it's difficult to illustrate crypto stories, are they supposed to print a picture of code if they need a picture? - but it's interesting that Satoshi himself used a physical coin as a logo.</p> <p>The second design was also by Satoshi and was presented on the Bitcointalk forum <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130524055823/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=64.0">on February 24, 2010</a> (archived version because the pictures don't work with the current one). It's closer to the current one, still a gold coin, but with the ₿ on it.</p> <p>The third and final design, the white ₿ on orange background, was presented about 8 months later, on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130525203057/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631.0;all">November 1, 2010</a> (again, archived version for the same reason as above) on Bitcointalk - by Bitboy. Okay, not <em>that</em> Bitboy, but a forum user with that name on Bitcointalk. Seemingly a pretty random user that only made a few posts on the forum. Crazy to think that the logo of a trillion-dollar-asset was not designed by a graphic designer but by a random guy on a forum. He said he was inspired by the Mastercard logo. </p> <p>I think the current logo still looks quite good almost 12 years later, and I'm glad we didn't stick with the Satoshi logos!</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mic_droo"> /u/mic_droo </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/td6dn2/til_that_the_original_bitcoin_logo_was_designed/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/td6dn2/til_that_the_original_bitcoin_logo_was_designed/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>Okay, the second half of the title is slight clickbait (but true)</strong>. Let me explain:</p> <p>There have been three different Bitcoin symbols in use since its inception. The original one was designed by Satoshi and looked <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Bitcoin_old.png">like this</a> - a picture made out of a few pixels, depicting a gold coin with "BC" on it, looking really, really awful. I think it's pretty interesting that Satoshi himself designed the logo as a gold coin, as I've seen many people complain over the years if the media illustrate stories about crypto with physical coins with crypto logos on them, because that's a wrong depiction. I always thought that was weird criticism - it's difficult to illustrate crypto stories, are they supposed to print a picture of code if they need a picture? - but it's interesting that Satoshi himself used a physical coin as a logo.</p> <p>The second design was also by Satoshi and was presented on the Bitcointalk forum <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130524055823/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=64.0">on February 24, 2010</a> (archived version because the pictures don't work with the current one). It's closer to the current one, still a gold coin, but with the ₿ on it.</p> <p>The third and final design, the white ₿ on orange background, was presented about 8 months later, on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130525203057/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631.0;all">November 1, 2010</a> (again, archived version for the same reason as above) on Bitcointalk - by Bitboy. Okay, not <em>that</em> Bitboy, but a forum user with that name on Bitcointalk. Seemingly a pretty random user that only made a few posts on the forum. Crazy to think that the logo of a trillion-dollar-asset was not designed by a graphic designer but by a random guy on a forum. He said he was inspired by the Mastercard logo. </p> <p>I think the current logo still looks quite good almost 12 years later, and I'm glad we didn't stick with the Satoshi logos!</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mic_droo"> /u/mic_droo </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/td6dn2/til_that_the_original_bitcoin_logo_was_designed/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/td6dn2/til_that_the_original_bitcoin_logo_was_designed/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R